🥇 Library Champion Newsletter | 📣 BREAKING NEWS: Browsing is coming back on April 5th! 🎉
Library Champion,
You have been so patient and we are excited to announce that in-person library browsing will return this coming Monday, April 5th!
Here are the details:
- Everything that was in the foyer, including your hold requests, will now be back at our main desk.
- We will continue to operate on our our modified hours of Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM / 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM and Friday from 3:00 PM - 6:30 PM.
- Furniture will be re-arranged but a few tables and chairs will remain available in case you need to sit for a few.
- Office services and public computer use will still be available.
- For sanitary purposes, we will continue to sanitize returned materials and quarantine them for one night before they go back into circulation.
- Storytimes will remain virtual.
We will have signage up explaining these changes.
Mask wearing will remain mandatory for entry into the library. Please see a staff member with any questions you may have.
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Book shots
Here is one book I am reading and a book that I just bought for the library’s collection.
I am continuing my way through A Promised Land. It is not a short or quick read. When I am not reading that, I am watching the TV adaptation of Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes series. I just finished season 1 and began season 2. I plan on reading the Bill Hodges series at some point. It's neat to see Holly Gibney on screen in Mr. Mercedes. She showed up in another Stephen King book The Outsider (and in the HBO adaptation as well.) I also got around to watching the movie version of The Day of the Jackal. I prefered the book.
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One of the books I purchased that you should check out:
Ocean Prey (Prey Novel #31) by John Sandford
(Adult fiction, mystery)
The murders of three Coast Guard officers chasing a suspicious boat in Florida waters by crooks who set fire to the boat moments after abandoning it send shock waves through the DEA, the FBI, and eventually the U.S. Marshals Service. In short order Lucas and his colleague and pal Bob Matees find themselves on a task force Florida Sen. Christopher Colles convenes to find the drugs the fugitives managed to dump into the Atlantic before they shot their pursuers and arrest everyone in sight. The duo’s modus operandi seems to be to talk to everyone who’s seen anything, and then talk to everyone they’ve mentioned, and so on, taking regular breaks to drink, reminisce, and swap wisecracks.
Everything is so relaxed and routine that fans of this long-running series will just know that Sandford has something more up his sleeve, and he does. Eventually the task force’s net widens to make room for Virgil, who, working with Marshal Rae Givens, hires himself out to the criminals as a diver who can retrieve those drugs while Lucas and his allies work their way higher and higher up the food chain of baddies. The cast is enormous and mostly forgettable, but Sandford manages to work up a full head of steam when Lucas realizes that his scorched-earth tactics have put Virgil and Rae in serious danger.
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Did you know? Lists of our new releases are available in-person at the library and online so that you never miss a new release. We have added over 200 new books to our collection so far this year!
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Free courses available!
Want to learn how to use Google Docs, Windows 10, or get eBooks? Register for our free courses in April! Follow this link: https://bit.ly/3wlAxWn
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Thank you for being a library champion. You make a difference each day!
--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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